Monkeyjay made this one up:
Q) What do hobbits use to manipulate images?
A) Frodoshop.
Yes, extremely lame joke. Smileychris will be proud 🙂
Baroque Cycle
Neal Town Stephenson has opened the site advertising his new series of books The Baroque Cycle. There is a excerpt from Quicksilver, due out in September 2003. It would seem that he’s bringing the ancestors of Waterhouse, Shaftoe and Enoch from Cryptonomicon back for another shot. Frankly, I can’t wait. It’s on my Amazon wishlist!
BTW, Webfroot will be back up within a week, if all things go right 🙂
Webfroot down
I’m working on the new Webfroot site. This’ll be the 3rd revision I’ve done since it’s first inception in mid 2001. Not dropping any hints on what will be new, but be rest assured, we will still provide the same level of news reporting you know and love.
Broke up.
Don’t want to talk about it on the net, but Mel broke up with me last night. 5 months. I feel like crap on a stick. Which isn’t good.
Book-a-holic
Just completed my Neal Stephenson collection of books with my purchase of ‘The Big U’. Just waiting for Quicksilver to come out – and Amazon seem to be letting on that it’s gonna be a multi-part book… oooh! If you haven’t read any Stephenson, I highly recommend Snow Crash followed by Cryptonomicon.
Also, my luck at Dymocks has been pretty good recently. I have a Booklovers card which gives me a $5-9 voucher for every $100 I spend there. I’ve been through the 500 point scheme about 4 times now over the last 4 years, and the last two times I’ve been there I’ve 1) been put in the draw to win a trip away (every purchase gets an entry), 2) got a free bonus prize, one free book from the booklovers free prize bookshelf (mostly pretty lame books but I managed to score a Robert Rankin) and a 2-for-1 voucher to The Four Feathers at Rialto and 3) collected a voucher for my 100 points ($5 and $6). If you buy books, you should definetely get a Dymocks Booklovers card, especially if you’re buying technical manuals usually worth $100+!
